新世纪高等教育人才培养的目标:——基于英、德、加三国国家资格框架的分析

对英国、德国、加拿大三国在新世纪出台或更新的国家资格框架的分析表明,高等教育人才培养的目标在三个国家表现出一定的共性:除了创新能力、独立思考与工作的能力、批判思维能力、团队合作能力等关键能力之外,新世纪的人才还应该能够认识到并善于应对知识的不确定性、模糊性和局限性,能够在复杂的和信息不完备的情况下作出合理的判断,能够和专业内外的人士进行有效的沟通,善于进行跨学科的思考和合作,掌握终身学习的能力。这些能力在一定程度上反映出21世纪知识经济社会对高等教育人才培养所提出的特定要求和期待。     

公共管理视角下高校学生教育管理制度改革

制度是高校学生教育管理的依据和基础,当前高等教育大众化的推进以及学校服务职能的凸显,对学生教育管理过程的制度设计、形成、执行、运用有了新的要求,即体现规范、服务、互动的特征。     

Suitability of school textbooks for 5 to 7 year old children with colour vision deficiencies

Purpose

The aim of the present study was to determine, through colorimetric analysis, whether school textbooks for children aged 5 to 7 years contained tasks requiring normal colour vision discrimination for their resolution. In addition, the performance of a group of observers with diverse colour vision deficiencies was evaluated while conducting the tasks under analysis.

Results

Textbooks of mathematics were found to include 10% of tasks which, to an observer with colour vision deficiency, would be very difficult or impossible to solve. The level of difficulty of each task was influenced by the type and degree of colour vision deficiency and by the actual ambient illumination under which it was observed.

Conclusions

Some school textbooks need to be redesigned through an alternative use of colours and textures to take into consideration colour vision deficiencies. In view of the present findings, many Spanish editorial boards have committed to undertake these changes.     

Gender Adeptness Among Educational Administrators for Leading Innovative Initiatives in Public Education

It may be concluded that female administrators are perceived as being more adept than their male counterparts for leading innovation in schools and leveraging resources into productive outputs. It may be concluded that both genders of administrators perceive such efforts similarly. The only two skills where gender is significant are the two eornpetencies identified as being alert for new opportunities and synthesizing ideas into focused projects. For the other eight skills indicated in the survey, gender did not play a significant role in such perceptions.     

Emerging Educational Institutional Decision-Making Matrix

The ＂emerging educational institutional decision-making matrix＂ is developed to allow educational institutions to adopt a rigorous and consistent methodology of determining which of the myriad of emerging educational technologies will be the most compelling for the institution, particularly ensuring that it is the educational or pedagogical but not the technological imperative that drives the technology integration agenda. The matrix is designed to be used after some initial research into an emerging technology. Once a technology is put through the matrix, a member of options are available： （1） shelving the technology; （2） putting the technology on hold and maintaining a watching brief until the technology matures in the market; and （3） researching the product further by conducting a trial or placing in testing sandpit. After further research, the technology can be tested as a pilot to determine how well or otherwise, the technology works within the institution. If an emerging technology has more than one product associated with it, a second and third step in the matrix has been developed, and the second step assigns a rating to each of the categories within the matrix. With many products containing similar features, a third step has been developed to compare products on a feature level.     

重新定位高校勤工助学功能

长期以来,高校大学生勤工助学的经济功能突出。而新资助政策的推进,增强了勤工助学育人功能的可能性;学生综合素质的需求,强化了勤工助学育人功能的必要性;社会用工单位的需求,提供了勤工助学育人功能的可行性。今后勤工助学的育人功能将越来越凸显。     

我国成人高等教育定位的新调适

当前,成人高等教育正面临新的挑战,为了自身的生存和发展,也为了顺应知识经济时代和终身教育思潮的需要,必须进行定位的新调适,要由重视基础性向职业性转变,实现成人高等教育由知识型向能力型、技能型的转变,以及实现成人高等教育由补偿性向构建终身教育体系的纵深发展。     

儿童教育的使命:培养敬人敬事敬自然的精神

良好起始教育会奠定孩子一生良好发展的基础。良好的起始教育应旨在培养儿童敬人敬事敬自然的精神。具体来说,应让儿童在敬家人、同学、老师和自己中养成敬人的精神;在敬人事物事和公事私事中形成敬事的精神;在观察感悟自然现象中陶冶敬自然的精神。培育儿童的三敬精神旨在让其过上美好心灵生活。     

教育财政公平与农民工子女教育机会均等

随着改革开放的深入和城市化进程的加快,我国农民工规模不断扩大,其适龄入学子女也逐渐增多。但由于历史和社会经济等方面的原因,他们中相当一部分,无论是在家乡的农村还是在客居的城镇,都没有得到公正的对待和较好的教育,农民工子女教育公平问题日趋严峻。农民工子女教育面临的困境主要是由政府公平财政责任缺位造成的。各级政府财政努力程度不够导致农民工子女教育经费投入不足,财政制度缺陷造成农民工子女教育资源配置不公,部门、地方利益造成农民工子女教育经费筹措措施不力。要解决新时期农民工子女教育机会不均等的问题,必须做到:遵守和完善现有法律,依法治理农民工子女教育;树立教育公平理念,加大对农民工子女的财政资助;最重要的是进行制度改革,逐步改革以户籍制度为基础的教育资源配置体制,逐步规范农民工子女教育经费的筹措渠道和建立较完善的教育财政转移支付制度。